This is super clever. Stripping the strap on an Apple Watch, and turning it into an old-school iPod-like-thing via a specially designed case w/ a clickwheel. Creative idea, love this kind of thinking. And with cellular, you have a tiny tiny basic phone, too.

This is a really fucking clever idea.

Coding in movies vs. real life.

You can build a business by giving everything away for free now so you can hopefully charge for things later.

Or...

You can build a business by charging for things first so you can give other things away for free later.

We picked the latter.

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daylightcomputer.com

'The computer, de-invented' —> great copy!

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Write when you have something to say, not when you need to fill up space. Calling your writing 'content' is at the root of the problem. Content takes up space, it doesn't have anything to do with communication.

'You don’t create culture. It happens. A company’s culture is a 50-day moving average. It’s what you’ve been collectively doing as a company over the last 50 days. How do you treat people? Who have you hired (or fired) and why?' - Jason Fried

So many things you assume will take forever only take forever because you never get around to doing them.

You can view a book in visual grid or simple list format. The orange bookmark shows where you left off.

Good time to preview the next ONCE product. We're calling it Workbook.

You know, it's really easy to publish short form content on a variety of social platforms. And individual blog posts on a number of other platforms. These are solved problems.

But it's surprisingly

Had a blast sitting down with David to talk about my casual, loose approach to writing. We covered a lot of ground, much of which I've never spoken at length about before.

Thanks for having me on, David. It was a joy.

Today's MFM recording: Jason Fried and I will be riffing on what's interesting to us lately.

Small Bets is finally moving off Discord to Campfire.

The last thing we felt we had to add before moving was an Inbox view, where you can see all your mentions and missed notifications.

This is now done, thanks to Ira Zayats!

If you're a member, come say Hi :)

We were recently down in Atlanta and got a chance to visit with a customer of ours, King of Pops (King of Pops)

They've made a huge name for themselves in ATL serving fun & popsicles all over the city. And it was such a treat to find out their whole business runs on Basecamp!

A nice example of a straightforward email from a company explaining an upcoming update to their mobile app, and the subsequent requirement to log in again. Complete with a link to a video to explain how to reset your password just in case.

Well done.